Top Shot Season 4 competitor
Chris Cheng goes behind the scenes in
Episode 11: "Have
Machine Gun, Will
Travel" to discuss the
M1919 belt-fed machine gun, the
WWII halftrack, the
KIM challenge with the FN PS2000, and other general questions.
This was filmed at
Google in
Mountain View, CA where
Chris works, and the recap was open to all Googlers and their guests.
Online questions were fielded from https://www.google.com/moderator/?authuser=1#15/e=1f701e&t;=1f701e.47
Fellow Googler Akshay Thakker moderated.
1:00-
Tell us more about the bullseye wall where you hang up the targets
3:00- We all gave speeches when we nailed up targets on the wall
5:25- What am I thinking when we come up the M1919 during practice?
7:15- Tell us more about firing a machine gun
8:40- Was it challenging to control the muzzle climb?
9:35- Was I intimidated by
Greg &
Augie who had fired machine guns before?
10:20- Before we knew it was going to be a half-track, what where we thinking while walking up to the challenge?
11:30- Do I have a strategy on how to tackle a bumpy half-track?
12:15- What was happening when I was getting situated in the half-track?
15:00- At what
point did I start feeling comfortable?
16:15- The sets of four targets seemed easy, but no one blew all four up, why?
18:10- Were the mortars and other effects a surprise?
19:00- How many targets did I want to hit?
21:15- How did it feel to take 2nd place?
26:00- What was going on with
Kyle's mindset on not voting for former Red team members, but then voting for them in the end?
28:30- The memory and physical pieces of the challenges weren'
t focused on shooting, my thoughts?
29:55- Kyle vs Augie practice styles
31:14- The house surprisingly was not a poker house, we played a lot of ______
33:30-
Elimination challenge- did we know what was in the box? NOPE!
35:30- What did I think of Kyle and Augie's strategies?
37:00- What did it mean to me to see Kyle go home?
AUDIENCE QUESTIONS
39:00- Have I shot any shaving cream cans?
40:55- Do competitors plot to make it into eliminations to try and get $
2000 gift cards?
42:00- In previous episodes, we were made to think that certain competitors were going to win, but then they got eliminated, any idea what's up with that?
43:00- Which has been my favorite challenge of the entire season?
43:30- What was
Colby really like?
45:15- In my view, what do the
Final Four really stand for, what are they good at?
48:30- Did shooting the M1919 give me a sense of what life would be like as a soldier firing this weapon?
50:00-
If I was Augie in nomination, would I have shot Kyle or
Gary's target?
51:40- Since we were so close to
Magic Mountain, did we go there during our downtime?
- published: 05 May 2012
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